Trash Talk or Smack Talk: The Language of Competitive Sport

This paper challenges the Eurocentric interpretation of intentionality use trash talk in competitive sport. The power bloc established within sport enables formation a moral community amongst athletes An anthropological exploration Black vernacular tradition talk, from Middle Passage to modern American sport, supports as mechanism used ethically vet and form relationships communities proposed conceptual framework advances philosophical scholarship on sociology ethics by creating line literature that explores perspective athlete. Framing smack reveals aggressive interactions an ethical construct capitalistic environment understanding athlete discourse will empower diversity, equity, inclusion officers, administrators, coaches producing regulating environments for